"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

reagan.com ^ | REPOST - 09 November, 2000 | Robert A. Cook, PE

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"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

"Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl"

Errors only Occurred in Presidential Races?

Editor's Note: The following statistical analysis was sent to me by Robert Cook, PE, a nuclear engineer, with an MS in statistical quality control, a software testing specialist and QA manager, who has a track record for analyzing and correcting trends, errors, and mistakes in heavy construction projects (ships, power plants, nuclear reactors, military and aerospace vehicles, etc. for more than twenty years.

Robert Cook presents here a remarkable statistical analysis of the Palm Beach presidential ballot controversy that deserves serious investigation. He says that the controversial 19,120 Presidential race ballots at issue there were "destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a 'second punch' for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL. *)

"It uses simplified but wide-ranging statistical comparisons to establish beyond doubt that democratic operatives "stole" by double-punching ballots approximately 15,000 Bush votes in Palm Beach County; and approximately 3,400 additional Buchanan votes."

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09 November, 2000

By: Robert A. Cook, PE

Ref: Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that 19,120 Presidential race ballots were destroyed by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a "second punch" for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan. (In 1996, an additional 15,000 Dole and Perot ballots were destroyed by double-punching presidential ballots in Palm Beach County, FL. *)

The national error rate of double-punching ballots is less than 1/2 of one percent, or at most, 1800 ballots in all of Palm Beach County, with the errors between all races and all candidates.

19,120 double punched ballots -all in one race, with "errors" only occurring two Presidential races against Republican opposition - is 33,000 "too many" to be an accident.

References:

(*9 Nov, 2000 CNN; Jim Smith, Former Florida Secretary of State; WSJ, 11-10-2000) (San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov 10, 2000, page A-12, Local Figure on Double Voting Only 0.3%; Haas Sees Red Flag in Florida Totals; by Caitlin Rother) (Los Vegas Sun, Nov 10, 2000. Statistics Point To More Than Random Error in Florida Vote; by Jace Radke)

The news media is utterly focused on the Democratic Party spin that voters were "confused" in Palm Beach, FL. They are ignoring the 15,000 Bush and 3,400 Buchanan votes that statistical evidence can show were stolen by fraud in these 19,120 ballots.

There is explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach FL. These ballots show Democratic voter fraud....NOT Republican fraud or "voter error" as publicized by the national media. Statistical evidence cannot prove any single ballot was tampered with, nor show which individual tampered with any single ballot. It can show specific places and times and methods where the fraud was done. (For example, if 15,000 dollars are missing from the register the day after your cashier left on a Los Vegas vacation, there is no direct evidence that the cashier stole the money. If, however, 19,120 dollars are missing from the register the next year when the cashier again leaves for vacation in Los Vegas, one has reason to investigate the cashier closely.)

Consider these "unusual" ballot problems in Palm Beach, FL - every one of them adds more Gore votes, and removed Republican and Reform party votes.

ONLY Palm Beach County Florida voters seem incapable of understanding and using this style of ballot.

Palm Beach County has an error rate TEN TIMES larger than reported in ANY other county in the nation using paper punch ballots! No information is available about the number of ballots invalidated for previous primary, state, and the 1998 Congressional votes. Unless an equal number (equal proportion of "invalid ballots" per primary voter) of ballots was double-punched in the 1996 primaries, the 1998 primaries, and the 1998 Congressional races ..... the Palm Beach election officials are specifically guilty of deliberate ballot tampering fraud in the year 2000 Presidential elections.)

ONLY in Palm Beach FL were 15,000 ballots "invalidated" (for double punched ballots) in the 1996 Presidential election. (This is almost unique among the entire nation! (Certain central city Democratic precincts in Chicago reported 120,000 double-punched ballots; and Duval County in Florida reported 22,000 double-punched ballots. Neither used the same arrangement of candidates as at Palm Beach. This shows that "lining up" buttons was NOT actually an issue at Palm Beach, but was created as an excuse to blame the symptoms of fraud at Palm Beach.)

One early excuse given to the national news media by Democratic "spokesmen" to explain the Palm Beach fraud was that people were 'exchanging" their double-punched ballots - and were given new ones...If so, over 26 people per minute "were confused" and voted twice for President! This many errors were supposedly made, detected, and corrected (by handing out new ballots) while no person made any "error" in any other race. This excuse would also mean that more voters were being handed new ballots per minute than new voters were being signed in. (19,120 "double punched" Democratic ballots divided by 12 hours, there are fewer than 100 precincts in Palm Beach County where the precinct level returns are suspect . Significantly, the massive number of errors occurred only in a few of the precincts, and all of those precincts were strongly Democratic. In precinct 144F, for example, there was only one "counted" republican voter for president.)

However, the "double-punched" ballots counted in the election were NOT exchanged, and were actually read by the voting machine. They are the symptom and the method of the fraud. There is no reason for this early Democratic Party statement other than that of beginning a cover-up for the double-punched ballots.

Not surprisingly, this early fable was not maintained, and has not be repeated. It also has not been retracted or contradicted by follow-up stories in the national news media.

ONLY in Palm Beach (and in ONLY the most heavily Democratic precincts) were 19,120 ballots rejected in 2000 for double punching....(This is a 4.4% error rate overall; in the rest of Florida there is less than 1/2 of ONE percent "double punch" error rate! (Unofficially, this error rate was 15% in predominately Afro-American precincts, and 10% in precincts with large numbers of Jewish retirees.) In strongly Republican precincts, the error rate was the "usual" 1/2 of one percent.) San Diego County has 800,000 voters, and (overall) has more senior, retired, minority, and new immigrants than does Palm Beach County. Since all of these were represented the 1992, 1996, and 2000 results in the San Diego double count totals, there can be no excuse for "innocent errors" in Palm Beach.

ONLY in Palm Beach did this "double punch" error happen ONLY in the Gore-Bush-Buchanan selections for President. (In a truly random "error," the mistakes happen in every race, all at about the same rate. In Palm Beach, the massive errors (over 19,000) ONLY happened in the Presidential race.)

ONLY in Palm Beach has the news media complained about "massive" ballot confusion. In the 43 counties in.......

[Palladin]

A very convincing study!

We need good conservative poll-watchers in every precinct in America in November 2004.

I have an acquaintance in Albequerque, NM, who told me that she voted 3 times in the 2000 election. Her best friend, a dyed-in-the-wool Dem who was working at the polls, was letting all her Dem friends do this.

Fraud was widespread in 2000. We mustn't let it happen in 2004.

[mabelkitty]

Democratic strategy for '04 bump

[Robert A Cook PE]

And, strategically, notice that Abq. NM was ONE of the few places off-the-border, outside-the-inner-city, outside the northeast-union-vote that voted democratic (blue) for president.

The Taos/Abq region county stands by its lonesome in the middle of the red counties around it in every other state.

Indian/reservation fraud is implied as well.

[Jim Noble]

President Bush was properly elected!

Yes, he was, and this article is excellent.

It is well to remember, however, that just over 3 years ago, a cigar-store Indian environmental wacko and a nutty communist got TWO AND A HALF MILLION VOTES more than Bush.

It is proper to start off this election cycle thinking we are 2.5 million votes behind, rather than repeating idle fantasies abot a Bush landslide.

[Bob Eimiller]

Bump for file

[j_tull]

Better get to know the crew, zippy.

[KSCITYBOY]

bump

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[Travis McGee]

It amazes me to this day that this story never attained significance.

It should have been the Democratic Watergate.

[onyx]

Geeeezus gawd, how did I miss this the first time around?

Bookmarked. Thank you for this particular ping.

*PING*

[bjcintennessee]

Speaking of voter fraud -- let me repeat what I have said on several threads. Nursing homes are prime targets for groups like the "The League of Women Voters".

A letter to Dear Abby shortly after the 2000 elections expressed a former employee's concerns about various groups who make a habit of going into nursing homes and filling out absentee ballots for patients suffering from dementia, patients who have no clue who they are, much less whom they would choose to run the country. And these people are voting for them,

The employee was especially distressed at hearing the women laugh after "voting" for a comatose patient they knew would have voted differently.

I would love to see some FReeper set up some kind of surveillance camera and catch these women in the act.

Considering the population of nursing homes across the country, hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes could be cast in every major election, with no one the wiser.

[Tall_Texan]

Bump to read again when i'm not so sleepy.

I did, however, read one leftist analyst who was using roughly the same data to claim it was Republicn fraud becuase, he reasoned, there would be no reason for so many people to vote Bush or Buchanan in a heavily Democrat precinct.

It must be in the eye of the beholder.

[Lancey Howard]

Great post!
Although thoroughly unsurprising (the Democrats perpetrate massive vote fraud - - surprise, surprise), it is always a good idea to get this kind of analysis ON THE RECORD forever. Hopefully it will someday be cited in the obituary for the scumbag Democrat Party.

[bjcintennessee]

I did, however, read one leftist analyst who was using roughly the same data to claim it was Republicn fraud becuase, he reasoned, there would be no reason for so many people to vote Bush or Buchanan in a heavily Democrat precinct

While I can't imagine republicans doing this, I would condemn such actions on either side. But voter fraud seems to be the democRATS' domain and I would like to see their a$$e$ nailed to the wall.

Speaking of sleepy -- I'm off to bed here as well.

[Ichneumon]

Excellent and damning analysis. But the writeup *really* needs to be worked over by a good editor. It's currently not nearly concise enough, and it tends to present its points scattershot.

It would also benefit immensely from some well chosen graphs and figures.

[patton]

It was born with significance; it just never attained noteriaty.

[maica]

It amazes me to this day that this story never attained significance.

It should have been the Democratic Watergate.

There will never be a Democratic "Watergate." Republicans have to realize once and for all that actions are not treated equally when committed or omitted by the two sides.

Consider: President Bush41 kept quiet during the Clinton years; President Clinton STILL inserts into every public appearance the slander that Bush stole the election - and there is no public response to this slur.

To continue to lie and foment resentment is evil. The Dems fight very dirty, and we have to accept that. Newt Gingrich was blind-sided when he attempted to act as Majority Leader, because no one had yet realized how the Dems would behave when they lost the majority.

Now we have had ten years experience with their perfidy. We have to fight smarter.

[Bernard Marx]

then to turn it around and say the victim of their fraud is the one who cheated.

But this is always the way to tell what Rats are up to: whatever they accuse the opposition of doing is exactly what they are doing themselves. It's the equivalent of the old sports saying "the best defense is a good offense."

[MeekOneGOP]

Check out Al Gore's REVIEW of Cast Away.

[Travis McGee]

I totally agree about the editing workover. I think David Frum (sp?) is writing a book about voter fraud.